Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Piercy could probe much more deeply into Daria's dual struggle not to take the same verbal and psychological abuse that her mother took from her crude, hulking, selfish father and to still honor her mother. But after introducing Daria's quandary, Piercy abandons this conflict in favor of the cheap thrills of the arson story...
...from their differences in character. The reader feels the tension between Updike's near-absolute confidence of judgment, made manifest in sharp epigrams and character assessment, and the lax, amorphous nature of his characters' daily lives. One longs atavistically for a dramatic event to produce and ultimately resolve the conflict...
...will relegate to the attic." Since the religious strains stem from such passionately held beliefs, they will never completely vanish. In deed, Israel has never had a written constitution precisely because its people could not agree on the proper role of religion in the state. Some see the conflict, in fact, as a healthy process that renews Judaism. "The Orthodox Jews have a lot of nuisance power but no real power," says David Hartman, a philosophy professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. For Hartman, the real question is how Judaism can be practiced in a pluralistic society. "How does Judaism...
...them, "Up there the world is divided into bastards and suckers. Make your choice." They do, and turn from chivalrous adolescents into cynical hawks. After flying hundreds of missions in a month, a dazed pilot hears of Churchill's famous R.A.F. speech: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." His reply: "Someone must have told him about our back...
...confined to child educators and their admirers. It also turns up on the political front, even among presidential candidates. For example, when Louis Farrakhan publicly threatened the life of the Washington Post reporter who had disclosed Jesse Jackson's "Hymie" slur, Jackson characterized the episode as a "conflict" between "two very able professionals caught in a cycle that could be damaging to their careers...